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A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually-farming members, and agricultural production cooperatives in which production resources (land, machinery) are pooled and members farm jointly. [1]
The origin of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives system can be traced back to the Nogyokai, a government-controlled association of farmers and landowners, which worked under government orders to collect, store, and redistribute agricultural products in respective regions during the Second World War. Nogyokai was transformed into the JA in the ...
The co-operative model has a long history in the U.S., including a factory in the 1790s, the Knights of Labor, and the Grange. [17] In Colorado, the Meadowlark cooperative administered the only private free land program in the United States, providing many services to its members who buy and sell together.
ZEN-NOH consists of 1,173 agricultural cooperatives and federations that in 2004 had a combined revenue of $53.8 billion (USD). ZEN-NOH is involved in the marketing, tracking, and quality assurance of the products of its cooperatives.
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) Northern States Co-operative League (NSCL, established 1921) Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA) Portland Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (PAWC) U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives
Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives; Collective farming; Collectivization in the Polish People's Republic; Collectivization in the Soviet Union; Collectivization in Yugoslavia; Community-supported agriculture; Confédération Nationale de la Mutualité, de la Coopération et du Crédit Agricoles; Countrywide Farmers; CPA (agriculture)
For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, PM Press, by John Curl, 2009; Humanizing The Economy: Cooperatives in an Age of Capital, New Society Publishers, 2010; The Cooperative Solution, by E. G. Nadeau, 2012. A popular and contemporary introduction to cooperative economics.
The Norinchukin Bank (農林中央金庫, Nōrin Chūō Kinko, lit."Central Credit Union for Agriculture and Forestry [Cooperatives]"), also referred to as Nochu Bank, is a Japanese cooperative bank serving over 5,612 agricultural, fishing and forestry cooperatives from its headquarters in Tokyo.